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Pale Potentilla

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Potentilla, Cinquefoil

Potentilla, Cinquefoil

It’s time for more dentist envy, friends! This is another bush growing along the front of that building, helping to calm the visitors to the various clinics inside. I never tire of seeing these lovely flowers that seem to look like little wild roses, scattered through the rich foliage. I hope you enjoy the details in these tiny blossoms as much as I do and that they help to brighten your day. Flower a Day #459

Fall Colours 2021

Reaching for the Sky

Reaching for the Sky

Today’s Fall Colour 2021 bonus shows us the tops of the trees in the sunset again. I wish these displays lasted a little longer, but at least we get to see them, one bonus of the sudden cold nights we have here.

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Knapweed

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Knapweed

Knapweed

This is another of these horticultural mysteries, which we will call knapweed for the sake of calling it something. My plant identifiers have tried all kinds of names, but knapweed seems most likely. I don’t remember where I found it and obviously now it’s not around – until next year, that is. I really loved the detail in this little ‘flower’, so I hope you enjoy your Weed a Day photograph today. If you like solving mysteries and want to delve a little deeper for the true name of this, be my guest! Have an ‘awesome’ day, everyone! Flower a Day #458

Fall Colours 2021

Smoketree Leaf

Smoketree Leaf

Today’s Fall Colour 2021 bonus is the last of the smoketree leaf photographs I took on my walk.

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Purple and White Petunias

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Purple and White Petunias

Purple and White Petunias

These simple and common flowers, the petunias seem to evoke so many memories for so many viewers that I am happy to share yet another colour combination of them. They were possibly a very popular edging plant of small city lawns, at least in North America in the 1950’s, which is when I remember my mother having them. Here, now, they seem to favour showing them off in planters or hanging baskets along our village streets, which give lovely patches of colour. I hope they evoke happy summer flower bed (or planter) memories for you as they do for me and they brighten your day. Flower a Day #457

Fall Colours 2021

More Colour in the Sky

More Colour in the Sky

Today’s Fall Colour 2021 bonus is another beautiful tree top glow, taken along my walk with the light from the setting sun just hitting those leaves.

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Cheerful Sunflower

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Cheerful Sunflower, Sunflower Artichoke

Cheerful Sunflower, Sunflower Artichoke

This lovely (and apparently cheerful) flower was growing wild in the field next to our barn, obviously sown by birds or maybe squirrels? As I was admiring and photographing it, I noticed the one behind it and went to investigate those orange strands you can just about make out in the background here. They seem to be some kind of caterpillar and they were all over the centre of that flower. I say caterpillar to be complimentary to them, but honestly they looked more like green thin worms. I guess one person’s worm is another’s caterpillar. Let’s hope today you see only caterpillars (metaphorically speaking, of course!). Flower a Day #456

Fall Colours 2021

Autumn Smoketree Leaf

Autumn Smoketree Leaf

Today’s Fall Colour 2021 bonus is another of those gorgeous smoke tree leaves. I couldn’t stop photographing them. Each one was so different and so lovely.

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